Jay Momaya
Fullstack engineer · Mumbai, India
Fullstack engineer in Mumbai, India. Nine and a half years of shipping software, from PHP at Solution Planets in 2017 to Technical Lead at Calsoft today.
Most of that time went into systems a business runs on: an ERP that every department of a publisher worked in, the seminar-to-sale pipeline for Sharekhan, exam prep that kept students studying through Covid. Since 2023 it’s been Gen AI — QuickAction, Call AI, and EHCP drafting that gets UK council plans out in a fraction of the time.
I work the whole stack because most of the interesting problems live between the layers: the schema that makes the query fast, the API shape that makes the UI simple, the eval that tells you whether the model actually helped.
On my own time I build iPhone apps. LoveLapse is live on the App Store, Pulseboard is in review and Tijori is in TestFlight. All three keep your data on the phone.
Off work, it’s mountains: thirteen treks and hikes since 2020, from Sahyadri forts and waterfalls to Hampta Pass and Komic, 15,049 ft, in Spiti Valley. Annapurna Base Camp and Kedarkantha are next. In 2026 I spent seven months on fat loss — 75 kg to 66 kg, 33% to 23% body fat — and I photograph all of it on an iPhone.
Freelance, remote or Mumbai, around twenty hours a week, and I’ll work to your time zone. I take on a small number of projects so each one gets real attention.
Elsewhere
What I work with
- Python / FastAPI
- Java / Spring
- PHP / Laravel
- React / Vue / Node
- iOS / Android
- MySQL / Postgres
Career profile
| Company | Role | Dates | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calsoft1 yr 2 mos | Technical Lead | Sep 2025 to now | 1 yr 2 mos |
| Blenheim Chalcot India2 yrs 3 mos | Specialist, Software Engineering | Dec 2023 to Sep 2025 | 1 yr 10 mos |
| Senior Software Engineer | Jul 2023 to Dec 2023 | 6 mos | |
| Target Publications4 yrs | Software Development Engineer II | Jan 2023 to Jul 2023 | 7 mos |
| Backend Developer | Jan 2021 to Jan 2023 | 2 yrs 1 mo | |
| PHP Developer | Aug 2019 to Jan 2021 | 1 yr 6 mos | |
| Solution Planets2 yrs 4 mos | Web Developer | May 2017 to Aug 2019 | 2 yrs 4 mos |